Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-12-13
FACTS ABOUT CANDY.
Interesting Information Picked Up by
New York Reporter.

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There is more money in molasses
candy at the ordinary selling prices
than in any other kind.
Close to molasses candy come choco-
late drops, caramels and other candies
in which sugar and chocolate or plain
davors are the ingredients. The candies
on which there is the least profit in
I proportion to the selling price are those
/ which sell high. The best confectioners'
sugar costs but little over six cents Il
| pound. and the best grades of molasses
are not dear. They and "a little flavor
/ ing make molasses candy, and that is
why there is 50 much profit in it.
There is another particular besides
good grades of molasses or sugar and
| lavoring that makes big difference in
the quality Of candy and would account
for the superiority of some candy over
others. That is the quality of the but
ter Cheap confectioners do not use
butter at ALL There are plenty of sub
stitutes for it, but none answers entire
". One of the best known candy men
in New York. who has built up large
business. starting from small talfy
shop, thinks that his use of fifty-cent
butter in his molasses candy has done
more to build up his trade reputation
than any thing else. He gives as the
keynote of candy success i: Pure ma
terii,Is, fruit sirups and fine butter"
As much candy Of the best grades is
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more. The candy stores down town do
big summer business, as business
men buy candy there for their wives
out Of town. and young clerks send
box every little while to their girl who
is off at some summer resort. In the
winter the bulk Of the trade is by the
women themselves. who cause more
trouble than the men, and do not buy
so much of the highest price. When II
man is buying candy he asks for the
best, while a woman prices the candies
as size does every thing else.
woman : candy store can always
be told from a mans candy store by
noticing whether there is soda water
fountain aud some tables to sit down
at A man does not 20 to n candy
store but to n drug store for whatever
soda water he may want, while woman
prefers Il candy store to have a soda
water and lee cream attachment Some
Of the candy stores are accused of run
ming liquor attachments in the back
room reserved for ice cream tables, but
"A Il L.,
has no way of finding out excapt by
hearsay whether there is IL secret for
men in the giiise of IN Ice cream parlor.
The best paid man in Il candy ostab-
lishment is the designer of new candies.
His pay is $50 or 500 IA week, while the
foreman of the factory receives only
$50 or $40. There is always demand
for new candies with new names. Each
new thing invented has its run of pop
ularity for a little while. and then is
succeeded by something else. The
candy man who puts the most taking
novelties on the market at the right
time is the one who makes money.
There is constant demand not only
for new candies but for new tlavors
and designs in old standbys. Mplasses
candy is rs old rs any form of confec-
tionery, yet there are new flavors and
forms of it appearing every little while,
and caramels AMI chocolates continually
turn up with some French name pre-
fixed to them. A man who can invent
such things is worth money. and is
rare, " T. Erening SIN.